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🛡️ GHSA-54xq-cgqr-rpm3 — sharp (CVE-2023-4863)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

sharp vulnerability in libwebp dependency CVE-2023-4863

Overview

sharp uses libwebp to decode WebP images and versions prior to the latest 0.32.6 are vulnerable to the high severity https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7hp-h8jx-5ppr.

Who does this affect?

Almost anyone processing untrusted input with versions of sharp prior to 0.32.6.

How to resolve this?

Using prebuilt binaries provided by sharp?

Most people rely on the prebuilt binaries provided by sharp.

Please upgrade sharp to the latest 0.32.6, which provides libwebp 1.3.2.

Using a globally-installed libvips?

Please ensure you are using the latest libwebp 1.3.2.

Possible workaround

Add the following to your code to prevent sharp from decoding WebP images.

```js

sharp.block({ operation: ["VipsForeignLoadWebp"] });

```

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

GHSA-54xq-cgqr-rpm3 is recorded against 1 package.

  • sharp

Timeline and source

Published on 16 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-11-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2023-11-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sharp — —

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